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|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}
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|author=Nigel BainesSamantha Harvey|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicOrbital
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magicianIn 2024, and named Cooper after Samantha Harvey won the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly CooperBooker Prize for ''Orbital''s father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesna compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts't quite know who to beorbital perspective, or how Harvey invites readers to besee our planet in a wholly new light. And when |isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his dadcompanion Django. Where they's prop rabbit starts talking to himre going and what the purpose of this journey is, he is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''reallyon the floor somewhere'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.
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|isbn=15420372390008551324|title=Death in HeelsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kitty MurphyNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag scene, ''Death unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Heelsprison and he'' tells s prepared to tell the police where the story body of Fi McKinnery a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her best frienddeath. This person, Robynhe promises, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bsomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. What And what he wants is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes transferred to an open prison to serve the stage remainder of his sentence and to mock Mae Bget an early parole date. As if the night could not get any worse Not much to ask, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself she's even prepared to solve do the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor=1800465270Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad DelacroixVaim|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death All was drug-related. Valeri and Timurstrange's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter . This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of monthsotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To herEline, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibletwo of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|isbn=13997022891035043092|title=A World of Curiosities The Killing Stones (Chief Inspector GamacheJimmy Perez)|author=Louise PennyAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a harsh winternew life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the tiny Canadian village daughter of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springhis former partner. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Willow's also his boss, and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the murder aftermath of her mother: hea storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been less certain battered about her charismatic brother. For Jeanthe head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair -Guy, it which had always been the other way around. Now they're both in the village and neither can fathom what's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifestolen from a museum.
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|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKThea Lenarduzzi|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeThe Tower|rating=45|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and ''How unctuous are the injustice fats of his imprisonment? Why? another''Why?s life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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|isbn=B09XWSXSKY0008405026|title=Maestro Orpheus and A Stranger in the World ClockFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnIt't sleeps sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock She was playing over never found and over in his mind. It happened every time he came the investigation ground to visit his grandfathera halt. He hadn't really wanted to come; after allNow, her mother, Helena, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymoreher father are dead in their bed. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isnInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at s something about the clock beside positioning of the bedbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It What looked as though it was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but going to go be an open-and find grandad - but where was he? shut case is now a complex double murder. And why had all Kerrigan is convinced that the clocks stopped at twelve oexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'clock?s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=3756228711Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerOther Girl
|rating=4
|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=''The history of We were born from the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pagessame body. I've never really wanted to think about this.''
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|isbnauthor=1529356660Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersBiography|summary=It was Biographies are often seen as the quiet form of life-writing which woke Zoey up - oroffers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, ratherand offers a vibrant, the absence subjective yet informed portrait of three of the noise which was a constant in New Yorkhis literary contemporaries. Here it was silent and In the heat was overwhelming. When she looked out first section of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and this book, Tolstoy complains to his two Manx cats and she remembered friend Gorky that she: 'd been out with Franny and Rocco last night'you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. She knew Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that shesea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''d had quite . Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a lot subjective account, giving us access to drink but how could she have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory of sirenshe saw Tolstoy, flashing lights Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her mindit.|isbn=1804271977
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|authorisbn=Christopher Golden1529077745|title=Road of BonesThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=The Kolyma Highway… A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the 'Road body of Bones'… a man in the R504park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's The dead man was Josh - one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's care workers who was due to work a spread of sheet ice suspended above shift the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dustnight before but who had never turned up. D I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted Vera Stanhope is called in to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, investigate the murder - but that's a bit rich, for her only clue is the disappearance of one of our main charactersthe residents, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a filmfourteen-year-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsold Chloe Spencer. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the guidegirl's childhood villagediary makes it clear that she adored Josh. And She knows that's where things start she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to go awry…|isbn=1803361476Josh.
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|isbn=1838776184B0FK5LHKD9|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Colour of Memory|author=S J BennettChristopher Bowden|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It''The Queens been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally so we were very glad to see a reliable way of marking timenew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers.Like all Bowden's stories, there' It seemed to begin as s a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple mystery at the heart of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one 'The Colour of the great-grandchildrenMoney''. Unfortunately, it didnWe like this running theme in an author't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed fulls work -blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred that the queen have take a few days' bed rest before venturing out mystery but had to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today give it different flavour and Her Majesty did not like to disappointatmosphere each time.
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|author=Peter Owen JonesOlga Tokarczuk|title=Conversations with NatureHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=Spirituality and ReligionLiterary Fiction|summary= One ''What's the good of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was a world that keeps changing like that ? How can one go on calmly living in it?''s not very long. Having read The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the book twice oversmall, I'm brought back inescapably subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortnight, however quotidian, but it is broadcausing chaos. In this case I'm brought to But, the idea constant in that the length of life image is not the point; house, stoic against the point ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deepperceived.|isbn=19129924181804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943henleyA|title=Squeakily BabyUltimate Obsession|author=Beth WebbDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babiesEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, therehis daughter's something they all dread - defence against a squeakily babymurder charge drained his savings. HeHis wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - 's so tired but he can't - maybe go travelling or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''cruises. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing That's what 'ordinary people do'hush, hush''. Think He's not been entirely up front about the state of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectlytheir savings. The mermaids join in - ''la louWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen nextthe thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|authorisbn=Robin Stevens1836284683|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityBig Happy|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=May Wong Well! This is a long way from her family in Hong Kong. She’s stuck in her schoolmurder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, Deepdean, and desperate it's nothing like I expected it to get awaybe, and do something useful to help end the war and to get home. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministry, she it takes matters into her own hands, along with me on a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Ericwild ride. They both go undercover in a large country house, pretending to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove And that someone there is passing secrets to the Nazis. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder scene, just what happened with even more to try to unravel and solve''The Big Happy''.|isbn=0241429862}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isnI don't want to ruin a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series similar experience for any of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? Youyou reading but I'll have to wait to get an answer to at least set the second question because I avoid spoilersscene. But Once that's done, I'll answer the first one: think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for his grandmother..yourself.
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|isbnauthor=1398515388Sally Rooney|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Intermezzo
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction|summary=First Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of all, a grandmaster at putting it was the earthquakeinto words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, deep in as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the ocean floormany relationships woven into this story, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused central one for readers to unravel is the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and utter devastationPeter Koubek. The deaths were uncountableIvan, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a convenience storesuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. He wasnFollowing their father't s passing after a dog person but long battle with cancer, the convenience store ownerbrothers's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped inalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=15291530501036916375|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Tim BensonPeter McArdle
|rating=4
|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Seeking some light relief ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the current political turmoil which is coming years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a sea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to seem more settle into and more like an adrenaline sportallow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, I to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was nudged towards ''Britaina constant factor in McArdle's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''early years. Sharp eyes will have noted that weI're not yet through d never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022all-clear was sounded. Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1836285493|title=The Dark RoomDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=What if you knew someone was deadWill is a keen player of video games, because you'd watched them die several years agoa conscientious student, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in slightly annoying brother and a different place and time? This supportive friend. But most of all, he is what happens to Leonard in this storyan aspiring writer. He English is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and since leaving journalism one at which heexcels. This hasn's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out she has suggested to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, Will and who his mum that he ''thought'' he had watched die in front spends a couple of him one night in afternoons a week at a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightdifferent school, Station Road, and lost everything because of it - where his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xability might be better extended.
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|authorisbn=Natasha Hastings and Alex T Smith1009473085|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleep.Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'' . And thus If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the Frost Fair could happen – people trading inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the completely iced-over riverbook for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, like our heroine Thomasinacan be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's father with his gingerbread a compelling read and confectionery shopshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won't, as he dies in Chapter One'The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It was 's the seventh book in a tragedy she feels no small guilt for, and series which looks at the impact a government has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bedco-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – in editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the four years since, eithermost important. But into This book follows the dark, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powers, and well-established format: a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only can he introduce her to series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the fantastical Other Frost Faircoalition took over in 2010, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts changes that occurred and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its corethe situation in 2024.|isbn=0008496056
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|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Jenny Valentine|title=The Book of Hope Us in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society Teens|summary= The done thing Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is to read a book all once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the way through before you sit down to review ittime. I’m making an exception here But then chance brings them back together, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting meand they are inseparable. This beautiful book Something has me in tearshappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together. |isbn=024147857X1471196585
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|isbn=15295047671787333175|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingPopular Science|summary=Susan I was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be greeted when she got Mad to her final destination. She neednWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay't have worried though as she went s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the home workings of Mr the NHS, humour and Mrs Russell, who couldnautobiography. ''You Don't have been kinder Have to herbe Mad. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with ' promised the baking and when it came same elements but moved from physical problems to Christmas Eve Susan mental illness and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas treework of a psychiatrist. The best surprise happened I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the following morninglaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Mariana Enriquez|title=Red as BloodA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, all the evidence seems to point towards achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists the help of Aroraan urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a financial investigatorcrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help The circumstances of the police, and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse characters are so plausible that the suspicion of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things becomesupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=19145853211803511230
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|isbn=08615419951529934753|title=Wolf PackThe Protest|author=Will DeanRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the road north opening of Visberghis retrospective at the Royal Academy. She sees blood on Still, he arrived in the road nick of time, complete with his two wives and a creature on its side near the pine treessix children, one of whom filmed what happened. It will turn out Being an influencer, you tend to be Broncodo things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfrecord of the protest. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerLexi Williams, Bengt Nybergan intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the vet. Bronco didnface, whilst shouting ''t make it but on Stop the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. SheWar'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home It seemed to a group be part of an ongoing series of survivalists 'blue-face' attacks, but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himselfthis was different. His newborn childThe can had been laced with cyanide, just four weeks old survivedand Sir Max Bruce was dead. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|author=Alison HughesAriel Saramandi|title=FlyPortrait of an Island on Fire
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=This is a very impressive readIn this powerful collection of essays, as it does a lot Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of what mainstream teen Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and tween fiction slavery to expose how these legacies still struggles withshape modern life. Its focus is courtesy of Saramandi describes the first-person narration from Flycountry at one stage as ''rotting'', a secondary school lad with cerebral palsyblunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanerpatriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a carer while at schoolkind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, a bundle time of assumptions people lay on himdiscovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Andaman Islands in his endeavour. First they assume that Along with a broken body comes a broken mindhis son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, then they decide heset off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Flyleader, which isn't his real nameAarav, but everybody just uses itis keen to establish good relations.|isbn=1525305832B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=3791388398Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaLili is Crying
|rating=4.5
|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=This First published in 1953 in French, this novel is probably one a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing sentences from their proper position on how bread - and baking - have changed in the twentieth page and early twenty-first centuries. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredientspositions them elsewhere, disjointed, where the author is particulartruncated. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on Like the tongue lives of the finished product but, apparentlyher characters, they doare often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Andrew GivlerTom Percival|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Will''Matt has s life is difficult, in a terrible lifemultitude of ways. Seriously—it He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's awful. It is so bad that Dan , he has the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down wrong shoes because his infernal offer: 10 years dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a blissful life cash-in exchange for -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his soul.'' Poor Dan! I knowmum and dad are separated, I know, we shouldnand Will't feel sorry for soul-catching demonss life seems bleak in every direction. But And yet, he really is still has a terrible salesmantiny amount of hope. He never hits his targets is good at art, and, clings to the moments of joy when he fails to get even Matt to sign on is drawing, that feel like a light at the dotted lineend of a long, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signaturedark tunnel.|isbn=19582040211398527122
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithSylvie Cathrall|title=Super GhostA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Paragon City has been lucky There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to have the great Doctor Extraordinary, their very own superhero taking care of them. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief and save the daycompelling premise. But And this is one day the Doctor and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, and the hero and the villain are no moreof them. Or are they…?|isbn=02414705360356522776
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|isbn=B0B7289HKQ1786482126|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kari LoyaElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the way) wanted site was going to spend some time with his father and hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the period between two jobs seemed like bones of a good time to do itchild beneath a doorway. The decision There was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktownno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - It's difficult as Ruth knows, but there were factors which pointed this up Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as more a result of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it onthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'sHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Christopher BowdenGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Mr MagentaThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifethe word: spellbinding with its fantastical, carried out by her nephew after she has diedmagical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than wisdom that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems appears to him an obligation want to find it all outteach us something about the world. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1804271470
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|isbn=17395939010008551375|title=22 Ideas About The FutureWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Leanne Wilson''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead s body was found at the bottom of flying carsa Scottish mountain, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got seemingly the result of a couple of confessions to maketragic accident. IShe'm not keen d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on short stories Facebook. Her friends were relieved as I find she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it easy to read a few stories emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and then forget to return to the booksensible people. ThereNone of the 's got to be what a very compelling hook stupid thing to keep me engageddo' explanations applied. Then They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and a killer on the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved itloose.
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